My left shoulder has been acting up too more than usual so I took a week off from the gym. Got diagnosed with shoulder tendonitis so I'm doing some physiotherapy and I think it's helped but we'll see when I get back to lifting some actual weight. I got a book with a lot of good exercises you should start doing if you're not doing any yet...

My left shoulder has been acting up too more than usual so I took a week off from the gym. Got diagnosed with shoulder tendonitis so I'm doing some physiotherapy and I think it's helped but we'll see when I get back to lifting some actual weight. I got a book with a lot of good exercises you should start doing if you're not doing any yet...

i tend to think along the same lines... for example i will never give up the dealift... but now i do them at the END of my back/chest day, sets of 10-20, stiff legged.... i still finish with a set at 4 plates for 10... but i'm sure i could go heavier if i kicked off the workout with deads... i just worry about the risks

Lacrosse ball to roll out the bicep/tricep/upper back/pec/lats. Stretch pec and lats afterwards for 60 seconds each. Do this before doing the shoulder warmup above and even on off days. Feeding slack and keeping the tissues "unclogged" in that area helps a lot over time.

avoid anything that hurts for awhile etc and work around it. I couldn't do flat bench at all, but incline, a few machines, and incline dumbbell presses were pain free. How do you feel doing DB press variations?

In the end, fixing rotator issues for myself was all about getting optimal lower trap/scapular rectraction and activation + finding optimal grip width on pressing exercises + lots of soft tissue work and always using a warmup like the one above before every session regardless of what I was training that day.